Shower thoughts dump

Aug 19, 2016 5:16 PM

This is true. And we know it.

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Too much simple thinking without further thoughts.

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#14 'Uselful'. That's a uselful word.

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With the tallest person one, there would probably be smaller newborns

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I like water based introspection over shower thoughts

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If pi is what they say, it's an encoded list of absolutely everything. We just lack the ability to decode it.

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Yes, but you can't buy the convenience of paying with $20's vs $1's, even with infinite $1's.

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The second last one? It makes a lot more sense to put it in after you die.

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You can infinite sets of different sizes. The math is way beyond my elementary understanding of numbers though.

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My favourite was "why don't wheelchairs have pedals for when their arms get tired" -___-

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But ... this isn't a showerthought? This is just stupidity. And hopefully something for the Darwin Award in the future.

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what if that's why there's no cure

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#3 you can kill yourself by doping. You really have to screw up to kill yourself auto-tuning

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Except that's not at all why drugs are banned from pro athletics.

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Because the cereal companies are trying to make a profit and that means cutting costs.

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Yes, and they want your cereal to go stale so you buy more

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It's significantly cheaper to seal of the normal way, heat press melts it into an air tight seal. Rolling the bag is still effective.

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Isn't an "infinite number" a contradiction in terms? Infinite is a concept not a number.

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Take out number and try reading the thought again.

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Zip lock cereal bags exist. They just aren't common because there isn't enough of a demand.

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They're usually reserved for generic brands.

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True. Which is really a shame. Some of those taste like they went stale ages ago.

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Sometimes I say "I have a right to my opinion" when I know the other person's wrong, but don't have the energy to argue about it for hours

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"know"

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oh I definitely know for sure, for example, some people have the audacity to say this site is wrong http://www.theflatearthsociety.org

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Fools and infidels, the lot of 'em.

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#15 Possibly not true. It's not yet been proved that Pi contains every possible number combination.

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I know for a fact it isn't true. pi actually only contains two letters

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Yooooou..... sunuvabeetch.

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We have tools for a lot of the stimuli we can't sense biologically

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mind blown...

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I'm just here to make some vague, witless report of how some technicality mitigates these quips.

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Omg you're right!

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Wait, wait. Ziploc bag cereal bags do exist.

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Not on the good, name brand cereals though.

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#34 I want to invent cloning solely for this purpose. Finally, court cases that are guaranteed to not be biased because of lawyers.

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That would require a level of cloning that also copies neural connections exactly. Which we are not even sure is possible.

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We weren't sure flying was possible only a few years before it was invented.

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Cloning has already been invented and that's not how it works.

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We haven't cloned humans yet.

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We haven't cloned humans yet.

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Nature vs. nurture. There's no way for two people to have the exact same set of skills and mindset. They would just be identical.

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If they are cloned, they will have the same biological body. Chances are, they will have very similar experiences as children (Same family).

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If they're cloned as children, this seems to imply they are cloned as adults.

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I don't think #2 is totally true because there are many types and ideas of infinity. But bc it's an idea, i guess we can say it's true...

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Think this is the first time I have thought about down voting a comment.

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Ok dear that's great have my upvote

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Speaking mathematically this is true.

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Any number multiplied by infinity is undefined, so it isn't true as far as I know

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If the solution for both is undefined that kinda makes them the same by default.

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"There are many types of infinity" just doesn't sound right.

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/1 Technically it is, though. The most simple example is that you have one infinity of positive numbers, but also infinite negative numbers.

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Gotcha... But it's still just infinity of numbers. What's a more complicated example?

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/2 Now, the absolute sum of those two infinities must be bigger than either of those infinities.

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/3 There are more examples because you have an infinite amount of numbers between each number, or different coordinates, etc. etc.

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Ok, that does trip my mind out.

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The key here is it says 'worth'. So there are 3 acceptable answers. The $20 is worth more, they're both worth the same, or they're (1)

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both worthless. It depends on how inflation works. If both value exceed inflation, they're both worth the same, since they have the same 2

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buying power. If the $1 falls behind inflation but the $20 stays ahead of inflation, the infinite $1 is worthless and the infinite $20 is 3

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worth anything. If they both fall behind, then they're both worthless. So the sizes of the countable infinities matter less than their 4

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relation to inflation. 5

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#25 isn't necessarily true. They could have been born at 23 inches when others are born at 22 inches etc.

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#25... Fuh... *Scrolls back up...1..2...3.....*

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What about when he was a fetus

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Or even better, a sperm cell

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Touche good sir!

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Then you could say the size of the sperm or ova (female egg) might be slightly larger than someone else so they could still start out taller

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The spermatozoon could have been at ~60 micrometers while others were at ~55 micrometers

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But wuat about the fetus spermatozoid?

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I think it just means, that through growing, at some point he was exactly the same as everyone else (at some point 30cm e.g.) - but then I

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have to question live. Because then I have to decide at what point live starts. The ovum could be differently sized ... and ...

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"instant" abortion could lead to the falsification of this thought. Then this live never was the same size as the tallest person was.

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But maybe I am just translating it wrong into my language ... I ... don't know :'(

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#2

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Actually, conceptually there are varying degrees of infinity iirc.

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It's rather complex, but there's a fantastic video on the topic by VSauce if you're interested (or anyone else) https://youtu.be/SrU9YDoXE88

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Although you are correct that there are varying degrees of infinity, in this case they would be of the same type (i.e. aleph-0).

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Assuming that there are countably many bills of both types.

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In the end I would rather have an infinite 20$ bills because I don't wanna give someone 100 1$ instead of 5 20$

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Strippers though

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Due to its increased convenience it's worth more then

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Exactly

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But to cover an $18 debt or anything not a multiple of 20 the $1 is more convenient because who wants change back when you have infinite.

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Why not just say "keep the change"?

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Can't, jewish.

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Paying a bill with 3 $20 bills makes you look rich. Paying a bill with 60 $1 bills makes you look like a stripper.

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Then just make periodic trips to the bank where you deposit a ton of ones.

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But that's a waste of time and I value my time

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But you don't need to work ever again in your life, which means you've gained quite a lot of spare time.

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But in the time of being at the bank I could read a book or do ummm adult things

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At smaller clubs they just change them in with the manager. Manager fills register with singles, customers tip with their change, repeat.

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#2 makes my eye twitch. Infinites are not equal. Just like how x^2 approaching infinity is less than x^3 approaching infinity. Basic math.

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Thank you for pointing it out so I didn't have to.

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But effectively still true.

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Exactly there are bigger infinities and smaller. It's interesting to learn about

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THANK YOU!

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But if infinite number of bills existed, they would worth the same anyway: 0

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Both functions contain all positive values of Y. And for every value of X; X>0, X^20 will give you a bigger Y value than X^1. However... 1

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Functions are f=x and g=20x not x^1 and x^20. Therefore if x goes to inf, lim f = lim g = inf. Both go inf with linear rate. 1

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In this case we have a hypothetical limit to Y of "All the Money", where both functions include the value of Y-Max, hence the confusion.

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Plus Y must be the image space of those functions, not the variable set of values.

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2 not exponentially. And both are countable infinities because bills are a discrete variable. So the shower thought is correct.

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All infinite using the same mathematical function are the same size. Saying in a limit approaching infinite, x*1 and x*20 are the same

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Yes and no. While they both approach "Infinity," the answer to both is "Infinity." Its circular logic as both infinites are still not equal.

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False. Discrete infinities (dollar bills) are the same. Dense infinities are in the set of real numbers. The latter are very strange 1

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Infinities. This is the Cantor discovery of different infinities.

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The functional value is the same, though, as any value that you can take out of it to pay for something would never be able to deplete it.

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No, it isn't. not all infinites are the same. Just like how there are countable and uncountable infinites in sets.

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You pay for a $60 meal with 60 ones. Or, you pay for it with 3 twenties. How many ones or twenties do you have left?

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You are trying to use whole integers to argue infinite logic. It is not the same.

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you are wrong. sometimes you have to divide one infinity by another in math, and the answer can be 1, but it could also be anything else

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Show me a real world situation where you have to pay infinity dollars for something and I'll concede that they're not functionally the same.

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you are buying as many tacos as possible. if you use infinity 20$ bills, you will get 20x as many tacos as the 1$ scenario. (1/2)

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